Ureteral injuries: a complication of hysterectomy

ABSTRACT

Ureteric injury is an important complication following hysterecotomy which a General surgeon or Urologist is called upon to deal with. A prospective study of nine such patients referred to the authors for management is presented. The mean age of patients was 36 years. Commonest [66.7%] presentation was postoperative anuria, the rest [33.3%] presented with urinary fistulae. All these injuries followed either elective abdominal or caesarian hysterectomies. Majority [89%] of these were operated by relatively junior gynaecologists. All these patients were operated upon. In five patients who had suture entrapment of both ureters, delegation with or without stenting was done. In four patient ureteroneocystostomy was done for ureteric transection. All patients were cured and discharged from the hospital with a mean stay of 11 days